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School Laboratory (Make line plots to display measurements in fractions of a unit and use addition and/or subtraction to solve problems based on information presented in line plots)
Draw a line plot of the volume measurement of liquids found in the school’s laboratory and answer questions about them.
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Subtracting Measurements of Mass
Subtract whole measurements of mass in standard units to make an estimate.
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GCSE Secondary Maths Age 13-17 - Geometry & Measures: Polygon Problem - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary Maths videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key topic and sub topic covered in GCSE Maths in clear and easy to follow steps. This video...
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Convert an angle from radian to degrees
👉 Learn how to convert angles from radians to degrees. Recall that pi radians is equivalent to 180 degrees. Thus, when given an angle in radians, to convert the angle to degrees we multiply the given angle radians by the ratio 180/pi.
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Determining if Given Measurements Can Create a Triangle
In this lesson, students will learn how to determine if given measurements can form a triangle by applying the triangle inequality theorem. They will understand that the sum of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the third...
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NASA’s NICER Reveals 1st-ever Pulsar Surface Map
Scientists have reached a new frontier in our understanding of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to observations from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Data from this X-ray telescope...
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GCSE Secondary Maths Age 13-17 - Geometry & Measures: Similar Shapes - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary Maths videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key topic and sub topic covered in GCSE Maths in clear and easy to follow steps. This video...
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Representing Measurements with Line Plots
Make a line plot to represent fractional length measurement data (halves and quarters).
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Go Now! Landsat & the Calypso Caper
During the summer of 1975, Jacques Cousteau and his divers helped NASA determine if Landsat could measure the depth of shallow ocean waters. The story of this NASA-led satellite bathymetry experiment unfolds through the photography and...
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Mars Wind Currents Reveal a Surprising Feature
MAVEN is the first spacecraft specifically designed to study the Mars upper atmosphere, in order to better understand the evolution of its climate. By measuring windspeed and direction near the top of the atmosphere, MAVEN has discovered...
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Why Do Raindrop Sizes Matter In Storms?
Not all raindrops are created equal. The size of falling raindrops depends on several factors, including where the cloud producing the drops is located on the globe and where the drops originate in the cloud. For the first time,...
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NASA, Partner Space Agencies Measure Forests In Gabon
NASA researchers have their boots on the ground and wings in the skies in Gabon, on Africa's west coast, for a comprehensive survey of the carbon storage of tropical forests. Partnering together with the European Space Agency, the German...
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NASA| On Board NPP - VIIRS: Enabling Future Climate Science
NASA's NPP mission will continue collecting critical climate data to help scientist unravel the mysteries of climate change. NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared...
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NASA | Looking Down a Well: A Brief History of Geodesy
Geodesy is a field of study that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, and it all started when a clever human named Eratosthenes discovered that you could measure the circumference of the Earth by looking down a...
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ATom Postcard - Samoa to New Zealand
Principal Investigator Steven Wofsy of Harvard University and atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center sent back a video postcard of the second two legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. They...
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NASA Surveys Hurricane Damage to Puerto Rico’s Forests
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico with winds of up to 155 miles per hour and battering rain that flooded towns, knocked out communications networks and destroyed the power grid. In the rugged central...
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NASA | OLYMPEX Scientists in the Field: Rachael Kroodsma
Rachael Kroodsma is the instrument scientist for the CoSMIR on board NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory as part of the OLYMPEX field campaign. From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to...
Brian McLogan
Find the value of x given two chords and arc measures
Learn how to solve problems with chords. A chord is a line that has its two endpoints on the circle. A chord passing through the center of the circle is refered to as the diameter of the circle. A chord divides the circle into two...
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Foot Traffic
People measure all types of things everyday: distances walked, sizes of clothing, quantities of food and time for cooking. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will trace their feet and cut them out to use as non-standard measurements,...
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NASA and NOAA Take to the Air to Chase Smoke
NASA, NOAA and university partners are taking to the skies, and the ground, to chase smoke from fires burning across the United States. The Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) is starting in...
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NASA | Our Wet Wide World
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a...
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NASA | Dual Precipitation Radar Arrives at Goddard
The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory arrived on Friday, March 16 and was unloaded today at NASA's...
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Organizing Measurement Data
Generate and organize fractional length measurement data (halves and quarters).
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NOAA Team Helps NASA’s Operation IceBridge Tackle Arctic Spring
NASA’s Operation IceBridge has returned from its spring campaign measuring changes in the Greenland ice sheet and in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Flying for the first time on board a borrowed NOAA P-3 aircraft, the airborne mission...